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Urge Your Member of Congress to co-sponsor the Clean Water Protection Act

Target: U.S. Congress
Sponsored by: Sierra Club

Mountaintop removal is exactly what it sounds like: Mining companies clearcut native forests and blow off mountaintops with explosives to uncover thin seams of coal, then dump millions of tons of the waste rock into the valleys below, permanently burying streams.

This devastating practice, the nation’s most destructive form of coal mining, poisons drinking water, lays waste to wildlife habitat, increases risk of flooding and wipes out entire communities.

Please urge your member of Congress to co-sponsor the Clean Water Protection Act (H.R. 2169), which would protect Appalachia’s streams by restoring the prohibition on using waste to fill streams and wetlands.

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